Muslim countries have been upright in banging Trump for recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, but its the time to see what happens next as the Islamic world is expecting a somersault on the decision, but nothing can be said yet as we have seen amazing bounces in the history too.

Under military lock and key, courtesy of most loyal House of Saud, the United States and Britain, Bahrain has been transformed into a grand penitentiary complex under the watchful eye of both the United Nations and the international community.

All Western nations with nuclear weapons are jointly boycotting this year’s Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, protesting the awarding of the prize to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN).

Saudi Arabia's crown prince Mohammed bin Salman has vowed terrorists will be pursued until they are "wiped off the face of the earth" in the first meeting of a new Arab alliance designed to defeat extremism.

Now that the ISIS terrorist group has met end of its life in its stronghold Syria, the regional and international actors are struggling to maximize the risks they might face in a future Syria and at the same time garner the largest possible opportunities to their interests and security.

In November 2016, OPEC nations joined hands with other oil producing countries like Russia, Mexico, Kazakhstan and Oman to rebalance an oversupplied oil market helping the prices surge from a dramatically low point.

In mid-November, Gadi Eizenkot, the chief of general staff of Israel's defense forces, landed a media coup. He described, in broad terms, how he viewed his country's relations with Iran on one side and Saudi Arabia on the other. He did so in an interview with the Saudi Arabian website Elaph. Journalist Othman Al Omeir, who owns Elaph, also has very close ties to the Saudi newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat. That newspaper, in turn, is owned by the Saudi king. Thus, Eizenkot had pushed forth into the heart of the Saudi media scene.

Political analyst and senior Egyptian journalist finds the deficiencies in the security planning of the Egyptian authorities as one of the factors behind the success of the terror attack on the al-Rawdah mosque and the massacre of a large number of Egyptian worshipers.

The Syrian crisis has now reached a historic juncture after a series of developments. ISIS terrorist group sustained a defeat and northern city of Raqqa was captured from it by the US-allied militants.

In a big week for Syrian peace talks, President Assad was hosted by Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi, where the leaders of Iran and Turkey are also to convene. Fittingly, perhaps, the US had no input into the renewed effort for peace in Syria.

An American political commentator described the axis of resistance’s victory against the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group as the most serious defeat the Anglo-American-Israeli Empire has suffered since the Second World War.